The Sun. — London, England, 1810-08-09 00:00:00

ClCrk titthe dui It s, Cletk al the Jnrata, ik of the Errors in the Lxclit'quer Chamber, ;:inn d be executed by the officers themselves ; and th-• they should only receive a certain proportiou of the fees, and be with those already mentioned ac co ntale for the rynainder. The retrenchment produced by these alterations would amount to 6,3271. ins. l oid. which, being, deducted from the above sum of 12,1021. 4s. 2d. would lease a sum of between 5 and (j i nni. per ann. applicable to the payment of the salaries of the Lord Chief Justice and other Judges of the Court of Common The Repot t then proceeds to recommend, that the remuneration to be made to the said officers should not be a fixed stipulated sum; but a certain propor tion of the gross amOunt of the fees they shall re ceive ; that care should be taken that such 'proper tiou should not be so great as to enable them to do the duty by deputy, at the same time that it should be such as to induce men of character and ability to undertake the discharge of them ; and with that . . view, that none should be eligible who shall not have been' for a certain number of years a practis ing. Barrister, Attorney, Solicitor, or Officer of one of the said Courts, or a Clerk to such Officer; the nom:nation of such Offices, after the sale thereof is abohshed,, to be in the Lord Chief Justice of the said Courts, or the senior .puisne Judge, during the vacancy of Chief Justice. The Report concludes with statiog, that as some persons who have pur -chased sonic of those offices have done so in expec tation of being afterwards allowe4 to resign in fa vour of other persons to be appointed in their places,' for petuttiary considerations—this practice, although it cannot • be terminated immediately, ought. to be abolished, within some certain time; and that, in the event of the abolition of this prac tice, and of officers, from not having the power to resign, contmuing to hold their offices after they shall, from age or infirmity, become unequal to the. -attive discharge of • their duties, that then, in that case, competent assistants shall be appointed by the Chief Justice; with a reasonable proportion of the fees of said office,, as payment for their trouble. MAILS. AA It 1 V ED:—"I Heliplarid, t Waterford. Duz—t Cadiz, i Dublin, t %Vatertord. PRICE OP STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWILLVZ O'CLOCK. Consols - -68 ii Red. Ann. - 60 CLI E 6 UN. SOLEM QUIS DICIIRL YALSUM AUDIAT? L U •IV D 0 1V , THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1910. We have seen a Letter from Lord WELLINGTON'S head-quarters, of a recent date, which states, that the desertion from the French Army continues to he very great, and that it is not confined to privates only. An Officer of some rank la . ely deserted from MAssENA's Army, and the inbr,rmtion which he gave %%as said to be so important, that Lord WEL UNGTON thought it right to send him to England, and he is at present in London. Paris Papers to the 3d inst. arrived last night, from which we have made some Extra6ts : they bring no news whatever' from Spain or Portugal. A discuss:on has, we understand, been for some time pending between our Government and that of France, respelling a limited Commercial Arrange ment bei weer the two count! ies: The discussion has, we are informed, been carried on in an indirect man ner, and the French Government have expressed a readiness to sanaion a Commercial Intercourse, by, means of Neutral Flags, to a certain extent. Instead of comi.etling vessels to take one-half of their cargoes in wines or brandies; the quantity of those articles is to be diminished very considerably by the new arrangement. Some regulations to this etfea have been very recently made public by the Prefed of the Distrid of Ostend. It is further stated, that a person seleded by the newly appointed Board of Commerce in France, has been for some days in town upon this business; but whether he commu nicates direEtly with the Board of Trade, or cit.. euitously through the medium of the Merchants, we do not know.—ln the event of the Intercourse tak- ing place, it is understood that the trade will be carried on through the medium of neutral vessels, sailing under licenses granted by either Govern ment. Particular ports, among which are Ostend, Dunkirk, and Havre, are to be assigned for the re ception of these vessels. • Every account almost which we receive from .nance, brings fresh instances of the injustice and oppression with which BUONAPARTE treats the Athericans+-an4-eyieFy mail from America informs that the Americans bear those acts of injustice and oppression, not indeed without murmuring, but without taking a single step to vindicate their Na tional honour, or to obtain redress for the wrongs which Amelican subjeas have sustained in France. A Gentlemanwho arrived from France in the vessel that brought over the dispatches from General ALMSTUONG to Mr. PINCKNEY states, that General tkamsaltoNo had made an application for Passports, and - that though they had not beeh aaually refused, yet the French Government had contrived to delay granting them, under one pretext or another. The American subjeas in France, though not aaually treated as prisoners of war, are not in a much bet. tier situation, for they are not perrnitted to quit Prance,. unless they proceed direaly- for America ; • and in the . present state of the relations between the. two countries, that is almost impossible ; so that they are as it were prisom•rs at large in France. The sales.of all the ships and cargoes belonging to subjeas of the United States which had been seques , rated, commenced thruughvut France on the Ist of this Month, notwithstanding all the memo rials and remonstrances of General ARMSTRONG. The Gentleman to whom we have alluded saw, before he left France, a Monileur of the 4th inst. It contained no news, but it was very generally re ported that BUONAPAR TE had itin contemplation to dethrone the present King of SWEDEN; and to place one of his creatures on the'Throne. The 4rgus, the English Newspaper which wa g published in France, was discontinued at the conclu sion of last month. •. The KING came 6 town yesterday from Windsor, escorted by a party of light horse. He was received at the Queen's Palace by the Dukes of YOliK .and CAmaaroos.—At two o'clock his. MAJESTY held a private Levee, which was attended by The Archbishop of Canterbdry - , the Lord Cluineellor, the Lord President of the Council, the' Lord Privy Seal, the first Lord of the Treasury and ChanOor.. of the Exchequer, die First Lord of the Admiralty,. the Three Secretaries of State, • the Master. General of the Ordnance, the President of the Board of Controul, the Lord Chamberlain, the Commander in Chief, the fudge Advocate, Earl Harrowby, Viscount Chetwynd, Lord Rivers (in Waitingl, Heatlitield (Gold Stick), Radstock ; Count Nugent ; Sirs S. Cottrell, C. Hamilton, E . , Coote, H. B. Neale, P. Hale (Groom in • Waiting) ; Admirals' Harvey, Wells, and Legge; Generals COghlan, Bolton, Brad Shaw, arid Campbell ; Colonels Bul ler awl Darby ; and Captain Dunn. The following had the honour of be;ng presented to his MAJESTY Vice-Admiral Harvey ; Major-General ..Cogtitan ; Sir H. • B. Neale ; Colonel Darby Griffiths, tat Regiment of G uards ; Sir Charles Hamilton ; Major-General Bolton ; Lieutenant- General Fitzroy ; Major.t.cneotl Campbell, tat R.liment of Foot Guards ; Major-General Bradshaw ; and Captain P. Brown ; on their promotions. Colonel Buller, on his being appointed Aid-de. Carnp to - the King, and on his promotion. Mr. R. Dur,das, upon his return from Scotland. Lieutenant-General Sir Eyre Coote, on his appointment to be Colonel of the 34th Regiment. Captain Dunn, on his appointment to a ship. Vice-Admiral J. Wells, on.his promotion. Rear-Admiral Legge, on his promotion to that rank. Colonel Hay, of the Royals, on his return front Walche. ten. . _ Major-General Count Nugent, upon his arrival in Eng land. . Capt. Alexander Fraser, R. N. on his appointment to his Majesty's yacht William anti Mary. ' Lord Radstock, on being pro►noted to the rank of Rear- Admiral of the Red. _ _ _ Lord Viscount Chetwynd, upon his being appointed a Clerk in ordinary to the Privy Council, in the rao►n of Sir Stephen Cotterel, rcsigneJ, who has tilied that office 5o years within a few months. He was Clerk Extraordinary to the, Council upwards of twelve months durin4, the reign of George the Second. He retires upon a pens►on, agreeably to the Act of Parliament passed last Sessions, which Nvill be in proportion to his salary and the nuniber of years he has been in the office. His MAJESTY gave audiences to the Lortp CHAN CELLOR, the Marquis WELLESLEY, Earls CAMDEN and LIVERPOOL; Messrs. PERCEVAL, YORKE, and RYDER ; Sir DAVID DUN DAS, &c. and anerwards held a Privy Council, at whiith, we understand, tilt Parliament was further prorogued troth the 21 st inst. to the Ist of Noveaiber next. V i,COUnt CkIEVN YND was introduced, and sworn in Clerk in Ordinary to the Council, in'the room of Sir S. COTTEAELL. Dispatches were yesterday received by Mr. PINK NEN' from General AamsTitoNu, the American _Mi nister at Paris, the contents of which have not transpired. The San Ignacio has arrived at Portsmouth from the North of Spain, by which we have letters from thence to the Ist instant. The French had at that time reached the Western extremity of Asturias, where „Bonet had his head-quarters in the town of Castropul. It was supposed, that his intention was to occasion the retreat of General Mahi front before Astorga,. by threatening to intercept his, communica tion with Corunna. It is added, that all persons at that place capable of serving in the army, and not employed in the defence of the works, had been sent to join the Galician forces. The fuilowing is one of our letrers : " CORUNNA, JULY 28.—General Mahi still re mains belore Astorga, obstru&ting all communica tion between the token and the enemy, which is reported to be short of provisions. Several con voys have lately been cut off. On the fall• of Ciudad Rodrigo, General Mahi issued a Proclamation to his army, in which he used the following expressions : ' Brave Countrymen and Fellow Soldiers, ' Though Ciudad•Rodrigo has surrendered to the enemy, it has made a resistance which has gained it a medallion in the Crown of Spanish Glory, and its name shall - be recorded with those ot SarragoSsa and Gerona. Let us reconipence ourselves for her loss by the fall of the city of Astorga, and by the de strudion of the hated enemy of Spaniards and of mankind." _‘! He then goes on to speak of the courage and discipline of his army, and concludes with these words : Let France enjoy her ill-gotten conquests, ob tained . by the sacrifice and destruetion of all right. She may bear down the temples of religion in her inundations, but she never can destroy that temple sacred to patriotism—the bosom of every Spaniard. Let us hasten to revenge ourselves for the injuries wehave su i tained. We have every thing to 1060 j they have every thing to gain. Our King, our Country, and our Religion, call upon us 'to exter minate this violator of the laws of God and man.' No very recent intelligence has bu.en received from the British army, but whe❑ we heard last, every thing was most favourable." Other letters from the same quarter say, that ap prehensions were felt of the approach of this enemy, and that as a measure of precaution, the Governor of Corunna had ordered the suburbs on the land side to be levelled with the ground. w ' NAVAL-NE W'S." PORTSMOUTH, Auc..B.—Cakne. in this day the Violet lugger from Guernsey. Sailed his Majesty's ships Ilevezzgc and Cizeerly, , the former for a cruize oft Clierbourgli; and the 'doer on a cruize; also his Majesty's ship Pe, siun to the Eastward. Came into the harbour the Noitra Sen. de Car mar, from London; bound to &lbw ; also the King George cartel with prisoners from Morlaix. Arrived the Bruce, BARDON j and Cumberland, BA RIARTT, from Quebec ; Industry, WARD, from London ; Astralue, EPPETT, from St. Petersburgh, Fanny, GILL, from Sunderland; Charlotte, BiKE from Milford; and Milliam and Thomas, liwEss, from Waterford. PLYMOUTH, AUG. 7.—Arrived his Majescy's ships Hawke and Helicon, the former from the West Indies, - and the latter from Wales; the Portuguese ship Urania, JOSE DE SANTO:, from Fayal, laden with wine, tobacco, &c.; and the Margaret, IticitAttns, from Waies. • • Sailed his 3,lajesty's ship San Domingo for the Downs. . Arrived his Majesty's ship Espeigle (torn a erniv.... SHEERNESS, AUG. B.—Sailed Majesty's ship Berwick to joie Sir EDWARD PEL LEW'S squadron off Stone Deep. came down the River Thames his Majesty's brig . Banterer. Cattle down from Long Reach and anchored at the Little.N'ore his i‘lajesiy 7 s ship Melpomene., Hon Capt. WA LDE GRAVE. DEAL, Auc. B.—Came down kom the River about i 0 sail of merchantmen; 'and remain NI ith hi,' Majesty'sships . .as per'last and a division of trans ports with troops on board, and several sail of out ward-bound. Arrived the Favourite, JACKSON, from Rio Janeiro; sailed 24th May : spoke 'on the 2oth July the Hya cinth sloop of 'war, C2pt. CARTER., from Rio Janeiro bound to Lisbon, with dispatches : on the 24th spoke his Majesty's ships indianri and Eurydice going into Fayal, the latter rather leaky : on . the 26th spoke •the Venus frigate, 'bound fur America, with Mr. MORIER on board; also going into Fayal. APPOI NTNIENTS.-Capt. C. Nixon to the Speedy ; Hon, Capt. T. B. Capel, of the Endywion, to the Eliztabeth ; Capt. A. King, of the Venerable, to the 'Hannibal ; Captain Hot ham, of the Defiance,•to the Notthumberland ; Capt. A Frazer to the William and Mary yacht; Captain Searle to at in the Han nibal for the Hon. Capt. Capel, who is at present at sea in the Endymyon; Lieutenant Alin Ottley to the Gowshawk ; Lieut. James Reid, son of Sir John • Reid, Bart. to the Unicorn Lie.ut. P, S•criven to the PallaS; Lieut. J. H. Tudor to the Partridge; Lieut. G. Ricketts to the Tyrian ; Lieut. Nivel), of the Hibernia, to the GostiaWk ;- Lieut. J. Shepherd, of the Goshawk, to the, Hibernia;• Lieut. Ni Smith to the Vulture; Lieut. C. Okes to the San Juan ; Lieut. G. E. Marshall'to ditto; Mr. R. Worth to be Master of the Nisus ; J. Brown to be Boatswain of the Ethalion; J. Painter to be Carpenter of ditto , J. ,Brice to be Master of the Revenge ; Mr. J. Brown, Acting Master in the Vestal; Mr. Davis to' be Sur geon of tile Vestal. ITYNESOII., AUG. 7. Yesterday, being the anniversary of the Princess AMELIA'S birth-day,' their MAJESTIES gave a grand dinner to the Princess, and other Members of 'the Royal Family at dresent here, who congratu!ated each other on the happiness they enjoyed, of having the pleasing hope, from the improving state of the Princess's health, to' meet for many years to come on the same auspicious occasion. On Friday the Otlictns of the Staffordshiie Militia gave notice of their annual ball, which is to be held at the Barracks. The largo rooms aee prepariig wit h great splendour and taste. Some of the Royal Duke*, and all the Nobility and Gentry of the - neghbour hood, are expetted as visitants,. Our Theatre, whicti has been open for a week, increases in fame, and consequently produces in creased profits to the Managers. There has not been so good, a company here these many years, and a very successful campaign is therefore expe;:ted. • The inhabitants of Holland have already begun to taste the y ski eels of French incorporation. Th e Master of a' vessel, that 'sailed from the Texel on Friday, states, that a Conscription, comprehending all young men from the age of fifteen to eighteen in clusive, was ordered, by the French C;oummrider in Chief, to be immediately . levied. All the French privateers had quitted the Texel, and several vessels have lately arrived in that river without molestation. On Monday last Major-General the Hon. W. LUMLEY resigned the command of Chelmsford gar risoo, and lett the town for Portsmouth, in order to embark to join Lord WELUNTON'S army in Portu gal. Three regiments in that district are under similar orders. The Spanish sheep which arrived at Plymouth, within these few Jays (upwards of 4000), are in a very sickly state : great numbers of them have died, and it is feared that very few will ultimately be pre served. Several shepherds.and a great number of Spanish dogs, have also come Over with them. To-morrow the Home Circuit will commence at Hertford., and Lord ELLENBOROUGH will open the Cotumission there, accompanied by the Lord Chief 13;,r0n of the E,Kchectkier. RE,I 7- 4LUTIOAr AT BUgIVOS AYRES. COPHESPOSPENCE, IN CON'IiNUATION, , BUENOS AYiIES, JUNE .f.?. --1 inclose yon an Ad` dress of the Government of Monte Video to IP ° People*, by which you will see that they are pre paring to follow the example set them by this pPce e You may depend upon the news I haveviritten irk my letter of yesterday, and others of previous datesi: but I have seen so many . riiisrepresentatiOns,i) Or e English Papers tespeting the of of thls.cguir try . during the government •of Liniers, and so 1 . 0 1 4 false assertions of the existence of a 'French pa rt y' that I must put you on your guard . againit,givir% credit to accounts of that nature, .Now, howevsr, where the old jealous system is done away, the coup' try will improve, and as the excluion of foreigners, particularly British, will no longer be made a prin . cipl of the Government, every thing here will 0 01 be better understood. • I still live in the same house which I carte t° when I landed here, boarding w ith, th e f am ily. } t is near the Church of the Residencia, which Mai° r Jolly occupied when Whi,teloCke's • army entered, and a party from the Church broke open •..nd W it t . possession of this house, which bears the m arks .° having been pretty well peppered, with . .musket balL s ' There is still kept in the _house a.botati sh e ll, whit:l l was fired' by the Spaniards, and •enteted a - where a party of British were, but, fortunately.; m il ",, fusee was knocked out as it passed throu g h the wall' In this street, now called the- Calle . de Linieu , , also the Church of St. Domingo, in which Getlt%' ; ` i Crauf'ard shut himself up, and near which Cole °' Guard was killed, in a sally which he made. O w • of the towers of the Church has numerous of cannon u6alls ;" - ate - — very near it there is trPo'„' k in which still appears the shot hole o f the . which struck Colonel Guard. He had t ) -".Y ti wounded before, and was leaning.apinst the po'r i when the second fatal ball was fired fr o m t he . r° of an adjoining house. Colonel Kingston, who W' s killed in another part of the town, was buried the Spaniards in the barrack-yard of the Patrie i4- Corps, as is said, by his own particular deSire: they have ereAed a monument over. his grave. I • rut hive heard so much of that fatal-business, that I `‘, 3r/ send you little new about it ; but I have never 's el) a Spaniard yet, who does not agree: that the pi would have been completely taken, bad Geoe k i 3 Craufurd been. permitted to eater the s ame Dig jt that the Spanish troops were defeated near-the tok'' : by his brigade, for there wereno troops in the to‘. vt ; to withstand theM. Never - Cotild - there be disgracelial conduct than Whitelocke's ; for : 3 l a 4000- troops could have taken the to wn then wir i f f out, bloodshed. There was then h a rdly an y reg w ‘ a force, an.d.,our troops . may _be said to have .P-5- . .` l _ beaten by z mob, of negrces and. mulattoes, for't' sn deed there was little else opposed t o th em . Ayres - has now a much stronger force than it ° I than I suppose it may amount to near 7000 . 0.1 "- t :,- and upon any emergency they would soon be able a increa•e it to 12 or - 14,000. Tne fort is a p 1 : 1 ` ;e no strength, and the town is completely open : 'tile unlortified. The people here are certai n ly 1)014 1 %, ,:trld kind; and they are very well - inclined tovv , ,• the English. Buonaparte has no influence ber e ' o f The Ladies of Buenos Ayres may vi e w ith those most cities in pers;inal appearance, an d display tri k ' i ch r taste and neatness in their dres s . Th e y are gener' ° remarkable tor very small fe e t. Th eir arn userriq l4 tsr are much the same as in Engl a nd, an d ot h e r P 4 ) 5, but there are few of a public nature, such as b a ' concerts, &c. and there is no Thea t r e . The bt iifr ,i i fight is the chief public amusement i n sum mer, 3 " cei mainly a barbarous one it is,. The clergy here 4 re not so numerous as in the Brazils, b u t t h e re are S till enough of jolly Friars. The Cr e ed o f the Bo ca hea rd C:itholics is well known b u t I h ave se ld o m of bigotry, or illiberal opinion from my frient l4 ' l6 Sometimes they have endeav o ured t o co nvert ° to and then I generally contrive to turn t h e discours e some other topic, as it is of no use to enter into° cussionron such -points: • • -' * The Manifesto dated the ajth of May, published .Y terday iu THE SUN. On Friday morning last was determined the I°l ,l pending trotting match for 2001. b etween the Ce brated horse Shales (the pr o p ert y o f Mr. J° ill o i , 1 Chamberlain, of Magdalen), and Diver (the P i r . petty of Mr. Richard - Wits', -of , -Gaywood).-- 3 ` l o started from the South Gates at Lynn, exaellY six o'clock, to trot to the 9-mile stone oh the,S o o ham Road, and back, till th e ex pi rat i o n of .ter the hour.—For nearly the first two miles pr' v e d took 'the lead, when Shal es p us h e d h ar d, an d him - in gallant style, his rider (Mr. Osbert Spitlr re of Magdalen, a respeelable farm er ',early 60 Y e ; I of age), politel y bidding the. other " G oo d 11 1 °:"f ing," and adding, " rshall see you no more tibo meet you on my return. - -At the expiration of hour, Shales had trotted IT distancing t he other about a mile and a half with the greatest ee p j notwithstanding that he was the smaller horse, carried two stone more weight than the oth ef- e e Shales has three several times -before' trotted O r miles in nine minutes. Yesterday Brown and Roberts, convitied 5° • t time since of defrauding va t t o es tra d esmen of b el , property, a id ed by a female partner in their dec e ar ,. floes, stood in the pillory at Charing Crosq, suant td - Sentence. - The . tnob 'mistook one of tCie for the Jew, lately con vicaed setting fire t 47 ,' a. house, and both the offcuder s w er e severely P e ' . 1 7 0 ,5 Anion Alexander, a Jew, found g uilty of tet` l . t r, fire to his house, No. 4 1, Little Queen-street, coin's-Inn-fields, with intent to'd e f rau d t h e Fire is . surance Company, also stood i n th e pillory; f1e3r,1,,D end of Little Queen -street, in ' Holborn. •The 1 %4 were outrageous against' this delinquent; hP, 4 5c assailed in every direction, a nd t a k en d ow n a lt smothered with-mud. Several pickpockets were deteaedin tl a cro'# - , 0 the pilloring of the two meta at Chafing Cross/1 party of the Bow-street Parrole., They were to the Office, and examined before Mr. NARES',.o f One of them, an old offender, was comm itted trial, for stealing a handkerehief, the proPet t Y'' ; ' Mr. Johnson, who resides in the neiAbourho o-14 ! Golden-sqUare. '`f 1 '1 1 1 ~,: